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June 23, 2019 By Stacy Williams

17 Best Homemade Cleaners with Essential Oils You Should Stop Buying

Filed Under: DIY and CraftsTagged With: Essential Oil Recipes, Homemade Cleaner Recipes, zero waste

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Do you like to clean? I’ll confess; at times I love it but mostly I hate it. It is a necessary evil though so I do it. Just because I do it doesn’t mean I must spend a bunch of cash to get things sparkling. I actually refuse to spend as much as others on it; especially knowing I can clean my entire home for around $10.00 a week. I get as many free (and natural!) cleaning supplies as possible and I use homemade cleaners (Six Dollar Family) with essential oils (Six Dollar Family) for what I can’t get free. In fact, if you were to look in my cleaning closet, you would pretty much only see homemade cleaners.

Stop buying expensive and toxic cleaners and start cleaning with essential oils! These homemade cleaners with essential oils are simply the best of the best! If you've been looking for recipes for cleaning with essential oils, make sure to add these to your list!

Did you know the average American family spends approx. $500 a year on cleaning supplies? Now, I’m not sure how you feel about that, but to me that just seems to be an excessive amount.  As if that huge waste of money wasn’t enough; the average household has at least 62 toxins in it. If I had to wager a guess, I’d be willing to bet the majority of those toxins are found in their cleaning supplies.

Best Homemade Cleaners with Essential Oils

It wasn’t always natural for me to do my cleaning with essential oils. In fact, I used to grab whatever. The change happened in 2015 when my family and I started a list of things we could stop buying and start making. Since cleaning and beauty products were the products we used the most, those were where we started.

Cleaning with Essential Oils

When I created the list of things to stop buying, I realized not only how much better my family’s health was, but also how much cheaper it was. Over time, I made it even cheaper by earning free Amazon gift cards to pay for my supplies with and by using “waste” such as orange peels to clean my home with.

Recipes for Cleaning with Essential Oils

The 17 homemade cleaner recipes below are the ones I use most often in my home. Yes, I’m certain there are others I use, but I either haven’t made them recently enough to have photos or I’m slacking and their photos are sitting on my hard drive waiting for me to post them here. Either way, the cleaner recipes below are my favorites. Once you give them a try, I’m certain you’ll add them to your own list of things to stop buying.

When you make these homemade cleaners with essential oils, you can use any brand of essential oils you would like. I personally prefer to use Plant Therapy essential oils most of the time. They are cheap, pure essential oil and work amazing in cleaners with essential oils!

Save Money on Cleaning Supplies

If, by some chance, you don’t want to dive into homemade cleaning recipes (Six Dollar Family), you can still save money on natural cleaning supplies.

Grove Collaborative will give you a free 5-piece Mrs. Meyers cleaning set when you sign up for a Grove account and spend $25.00. Grove is one of my favorite sites to save on things I can’t make such as trash bags.

The Honest Company will give you a free 30-day trial of their natural cleaning supplies when you sign up HERE. You may also be given a credit off your first order.

Thrive Market is one of my favorite sites to save on gluten free foods and other natural products. You can save 15-20% on your first order and get a free 30-day trial when you sign up for a Thrive Market account HERE.

Finally, Amazon’s Prime Pantry offers a free 30-day trial when you sign up for a Prime Pantry account HERE. You must be a Prime member to qualify for the Prime Pantry trial. If you are not an Amazon Prime member, you can sign up for 30-days of Amazon Prime free right HERE.

How to Make Homemade Cleaners

Love how easy detergent tablets make doing laundry but hate the cost? Give these homemade laundry detergent tablets a try! They're easy to make, clean better than store bought and are super cheap to make!

How to Make Homemade Detergent Pods

Skip the store and make this homemade dishwasher detergent instead! This DIY dishwasher detergent will have your dishes sanitized and clean just like the expensive stuff. All for pennies per batch!

How to Make Homemade Dishwasher Detergent

Looking for a great way to cut your laundry costs? These DIY Reusable Dryer Sheets are just the ticket! You'll never buy fabric softener sheets again after you try these! All natural, chemical free and budget friendly too!

How to Make DIY Reusable Fabric Softener Sheets

How to Make Homemade Orange Oil Cleaner

Homemade Vegetable Wash - Make sure you're getting all of the gunk off your fruits and vegetables with this super easy homemade vegetable wash!

How to Make Homemade Fruit & Vegetable Wash

Homemade All Purpose Cleaner - Skip the store and make this super effective homemade cleaner instead! Lavender and Lemon join with 1 powerful cleaning agent to create an all natural cleaner that really packs a punch!

How to Make Homemade All-Purpose Disinfecting Cleaner

How to make liquid castile soap - Are you learning how to make soap? This homemade liquid castile soap from a bar is super easy and works just like the more expensive stuff! You'll spend over 50% less on Castile soap with this method!

How to Make Liquid Castile Soap from a Bar

Make Your Own Homemade Cleaning Wipes - Skip the paper towels and the disposable wipes and make these homemade cleaning wipes instead! They're super simple to make and zero waste!

How to Make Homemade Cleaning Wipes

DIY Powdered Laundry Detergent - Who says homemade cleaners need to be complicated? This Homemade Powdered Laundry Detergent is so simple you'll wonder why you haven't made it before!

How to Make Homemade Powdered Laundry Detergent

Skip the store bought stuff and still have clear, streak free windows! This DIY Window Cleaner is super easy to make (You won't believe how easy!) and cheap too! Plus? It works so much better than the commercial stuff with none of the chemicals!

How to Make Homemade Window Cleaner

Looking for easy ways to clean makeup brushes naturally? You'll love this DIY Makeup Brush Cleaner! Only 3 ingredients to sanitize and clean your brushes!

How to Make Homemade Makeup Brush Cleaner

Laundry detergent is so expensive for what it is. It's just soap! Instead of buying it, make this DIY laundry detergent instead! Fels-Naptha and Zote Free and SO easy to make! Cheap too! Just $0.04 per load!

How to Make Homemade Liquid Laundry Detergent with Castile Soap

Tired of expensive floor cleaners that are full of who knows what? Give this homemade floor cleaner a try! Less than $1.50 per gallon and completely safe for kids, pets and everything in between!

How to make Homemade Floor Cleaner

How to Make Homemade Soft Scrub - Clean your bathroom naturally! This homemade soft scrub recipe is easy to make, cheap and simply amazing!

How to Make Homemade Soft Scrub

Stubborn stains on your grout? This easy homemade grout cleaner can help! It's so easy to make and works with no scrubbing!

How to Make Homemade Grout Cleaner

How to Make Homemade Silver Cleaner

Save your money and skip the expensive store bought dish tablets! These homemade dishwasher tablets are my favorite homemade cleaner recipe! Simple, easy and cheap to make!

How to Make Homemade Dishwasher Tablets


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